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The narrative details cramped, mass-produced surroundings, low-comfort travel from deep space, and the physical discomfort of prolonged time in orbit and the shuttle. Reflection on a steep decline in work and money leads to a determination to contact an out-of-reach contact, secure basic relief, and proceed with his assignment despite the surrounding uncertainty and grime.","TABLE OF CONTENTS  \nRibbonworld (Balcom, \\#2) Chapter 1  \nChapter 2  \nChapter 3  \nChapter 4  \nChapter 5  \nChapter 6  \nChapter 7  \nChapter 8  \nChapter 9  \nChapter 10  \nChapter 11  \nChapter 12  \nChapter 13  \nChapter 14  \nChapter 15  \nChapter 16  \nChapter 17  \nChapter 18  \nChapter 19  \nChapter 20  \nChapter 21  \nChapter 22  \nChapter 23  \nChapter 24  \nChapter 25  \nChapter 26  \nChapter 27  \nChapter 28  \nChapter 29  \nChapter 30  \nChapter 31  \nChapter 32  \nChapter 33  \nChapter 34  \nChapter 35  \nChapter 36  \nChapter 37  \nChapter 38  \nI hope that you have enjoyed this story.  \nAlso by Richard Dee  \nRichard Dee  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCHAPTER 1  \nThe door hissed shut behind me and I dropped my bags and flexed my  \nfingers. I was on the fourth floor and the lift wasn’t working, something about a safety inspection. So I had used the stairs. After nearly two days sitting around in space, my legs were trembling with the effort and I wheezed like an eighty-year-old with asthma. I was hot from the effort and the sweat dripped off my nose. I wiped my forehead with my palm, leaving a damp patch on my trouser leg where my hand rested. The ventilator was making a noise not unlike a cement mixer, filling the room with freezing cold air and making the dust sparkle in the harsh lighting. The cold air cooled my sweatsoaked shirt and made me shiver.  \nA typical cheap hotel room lay before me; with its familiar layout and standard colour scheme it could have been anywhere. The carpet was worn and threadbare and looking down I could see that it didn’t quite reach into one corner. These hotel rooms were mass produced with the furniture installed and shipped in packs; you only had to bolt them together around a metal frame and seal the edges. All the services were pre-installed; after plugging in the electricity and water they were ready to go. At least that meant that I knew where the thermostat was. I reached across and dialled it to minimum. The noise decreased.  \nHotels like these were mainly used by manual workers on short term contracts, who were always so tired that they didn’t care where they stopped as long as it had a bed and a supply of beer. I was here because it was cheap and anonymous. And I wanted to stretch my budget.  \nThe furniture was all made of fibreboard; the shiny surface layer that was supposed to look like wood but didn’t was chipped at the edges. The bed at least was inviting, although that may have been due to the fact that I hadn’t slept for thirty-six hours. I should have been here yesterday, but a magnetic storm had made us waste a day in high orbit.  \nWe had spent the time strapped into the hard seats on a shuttle ; the liner had departed, taking with it the relative comforts of deep space travel. Normally you spent a maximum of a couple of hours in a shuttle; they had the oxygen for much longer, of course, regulations demanded it, but regulations didn’t say anything about comfort. And on a personal level I had a thing about vacuum. The liner was built to disguise it but the shuttle was less able to hide the fact that I was only a couple of sheets of metal away from a whole lot of nothing.  \nWith a sinking feeling I realised that I could have been in any of the cheap hotels I had ever stopped in. And I’ve stopped in a few recently. In fact my life had been on a downward spiral for a while; work and money had dried up and I was scratching a living on jobs that an intern could handle. Trouble was, the interns were getting the better jobs and I was left in places like this.  \nThere was a short narrow corridor from the doorway, with the bathroom on the right-hand side. This led into the main part of the room. Straight ahead was a large picture window, with stained curtains covering the view. A desk, a chair and the end of the bed were the only visible furnishings. 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